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Human Rights: Deaths and Rituals for Living

The knowledge of old generations is passed to the young...

(BETHLEHEM) - Funeral traditions and rituals are sometimes called death rituals but I believe they are rituals in affirmation and support of the living.

Friends asked why my response to emails or writing slowed down to a trickle in the past week. The reason is that for nearly 10 days now we have been very busy with the terminal disease and subsequent death of my brother-in-law.

A Hand of Friendship in Salem, India

Salem means Peace, in case you didn't know that, so we have a lot to live up to.

(SALEM, Tamilnadu) - I have long been associated with promotion of friendshp through the sister city relationship between the city of Salem in Tamilnadu; and Salem in the US state of Oregon.

This relationship is dormant at present due to a lack of interest in both sides. Now I am prompted to revive the tie-up thanks to the interest now shown by Mr. Tim King, an influential and leading journalist in our sister city; Salem in the US...

Ciudad Juarez: Enough is Enough

In a joint statement, organizations called on the government to end its “simulations” and make “human rights for all a reality on this border.”

(LAS CRUCES, N.M.) - December on the border is a time of family, faith and fiesta. Every year, thousands pay homage to the Virgin of Guadalupe.

While throngs jam international bridges for holiday shopping excursions, lively gatherings of friends and family on both sides of the border enjoy tamales, posole and festive times.

Spontaneous Creation?

“The universe can create itself spontaneously out of nothing and it has no creator" - Stephen Hawking

(KELOWNA, B.C.) - There was and is, A CAUSE, prior to the big bang.

The prominent scientist Stephen Hawking warned humanity that, “We’re acting with reckless indifference to the future on planet earth. It will be difficult to avoid disaster in the next hundred years, let alone the next thousand or million.”

Ein Hod and the Israeli Sin

Ein Hod is just a symbol of Israeli morbidity. It is a symbol of ethical blindness. But it is also a symptom of Israeli hopelessness.

(LONDON) - Israeli press reported today that the wildfire, which has been raging in northern Israel since Thursday, continued to spread on Saturday morning, burning houses in the pastoral artists' village Ein Hod.

Ein Hod which lies on the road to Haifa is an Israeli artists' colony. It is located at the foot of Mount Carmel, overlooking the Mediterranean coast.  In the fifties, a group of Jewish artists decided to make Ein Hod into their home.

WikiLeaks and Gaza Links

“It seems to us that the country which is not mentioned much, especially in the Middle East, or which this development seems to favor is Israel. This is how we see it in a way when we look in the context of who is benefiting and who is being harmed.”

(CLERMONT, Fla.) - WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange, champion for freedom of speech, may be facing investigation in the US.

In question is whether he violated espionage laws by hiding out after being charged by the international public prosecution office with "sex by surprise" for violating an obscure Swedish law against having sex without a condom.

WikiLeaks and The Sound of Silence

The U.S. military is not without considerable knowledge confirming the common source of the fixed intelligence that induced America to invade Iraq.

(TEMPE, Az.) - The scope and scale of WikiLeaks is a marvel to behold. Some praise it as the ultimate form of democracy. Others as the epitome of the most sacred of liberty’s principles: the right to know.

Yet the real story here is not what’s revealed but what’s withheld. The marvel is not what we now know but what is already known that is left unsaid. And what’s given an interpretive spin by those newspapers granted priority access.

The Chilcot Inquiry: Britain`s 9/11 Commission

While Bush probably believed he was “ridding the world of evil,” Zelikow knew exactly why Iraq was being targeted.

(OSAKA, Japan) - All too often, official inquiries are conducted by the very people who should themselves be under investigation. In this respect, Britain’s Chilcot Inquiry on the Iraq war bears a distressing similarity to the 9/11 Commission.

In a remarkable symmetry, both inquiries involve a Jewish Zionist historian, who not only advised his country’s leader to go to war against Iraq, but actually provided the ideological justification for that unnecessary war.

WikiLeaks and Espionage Israeli Style

Is WikiLeaks the visible face of an Israeli disinformation campaign?

(TEMPE, Az.) - The U.S. is under attack by an enemy within. Skilled at game theory warfare, this foe targets the most sensitive realm of U.S. national security: its relations with other nations.

The online publication of a quarter-million documents chronicling diplomatic exchanges is notable both for what’s omitted and what’s included.

Gaza and the Will to Change the World

Announcing Ken O'Keefe's upcoming mission to free Gaza that is certain to bring about change, one way or another.

(SALEM, Ore.) - I suspect this story may be the most important item I have ever written.

I have been patiently waiting to release Ken O'Keefe's plans to bring relief to the people of Gaza by permanently breaking the illegal Israeli military blockade that has been in force for years.